SCRIBE, or The Sisters Milton, or Elegy for the Unwritten

SCRIBE imagines the poet Milton’s relationship with his 3 kept-barely-literate daughters, while he was blind & outcast & composing Paradise Lost and they were transcribing & homemaking & coming of age. Fantastical & unflinching, SCRIBE probes the relationship between genius, privilege, and labor, and mourns the enormity of unmade art by the voices we’ll never get to hear. Set during 17th-century England’s social volatility—and ours, too, now—SCRIBE voices the story of 3 children growing up in the shadow of the canon, of society, and of its cultural and historical legacies.